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With the addition of large numbers of distributed energy resources (DERs) to distribution networks comes the increasing risk that their operation may violate the safety constraints of these networks. The problem considered in this paper is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Robert Steven , Oleksiy V. Klymenko , Michael Short

The increasing number of flexible devices and distributed energy resources in power grids renders the coordination of transmission and distribution systems increasingly complex. In this paper, we discuss and compare two different approaches…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Maísa Beraldo Bandeira , Alexander Engelmann , Timm Faulwasser

The increasing deployment of end use power resources in distribution systems created active distribution systems. Uncontrolled active distribution systems exhibit wide variations of voltage and loading throughout the day as some of these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Matthew Lau , Kayla Thames , Sakis Meliopoulos

In this paper, we develop a distributed algorithm for solving a class of distributed convex optimization problems where the local objective functions can be a general nonsmooth function, and all equalities and inequalities are network-wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Yeong-Ung Kim , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Distributed optimization is often widely attempted and innovated as an attractive and preferred methodology to solve large-scale problems effectively in a localized and coordinated manner. Thus, it is noteworthy that the methodology of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Xiaoxue Zhang , Jun Ma , Zilong Cheng , Sunan Huang , Clarence W. de Silva , Tong Heng Lee

The optimal power flow (OPF) problem seeks to control power generation/demand to optimize certain objectives such as minimizing the generation cost or power loss in the network. It is becoming increasingly important for distribution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Lingwen Gan , Na Li , Ufuk Topcu , Steven H. Low

In this paper, a novel distributed optimization framework has been proposed. The key idea is to convert optimization problems into optimal control problems where the objective of each agent is to design the current control input minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Ziyuan Guo , Yue Sun , Yeming Xu , Liping Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

We study dual-based algorithms for distributed convex optimization problems over networks, where the objective is to minimize a sum $\sum_{i=1}^{m}f_i(z)$ of functions over in a network. We provide complexity bounds for four different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-17 César A. Uribe , Soomin Lee , Alexander Gasnikov , Angelia Nedić

Distributed allocation finds applications in many scenarios including CPU scheduling, distributed energy resource management, and networked coverage control. In this paper, we propose a fast convergent optimization algorithm with a tunable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Alireza Aghasi

Alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) is a powerful method to solve decentralized convex optimization problems. In distributed settings, each node performs computation with its local data and the local results are exchanged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Xueru Zhang , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Mingyan Liu

Large-scale distributed antenna systems with many access points (APs) that serve the users by coherent joint transmission is being considered for 5G-and-beyond networks. The technology is called Cell-free Massive MIMO and can provide a more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we study power-efficient resource allocation for multicarrier non-orthogonal multiple access (MC-NOMA) systems. The resource allocation algorithm design is formulated as a non-convex optimization problem which jointly designs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Hui-Ming Wang

We propose a hidden convexity-based method to address distributed optimal energy flow (OEF) problems for transmission-level integrated electricity-gas systems. First, we develop a node-wise decoupling method to de-compose an OEF problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Rong-Peng Liu , Yue Song , Junhong Liu , Xiaozhe Wang , Jinpeng Guo , Yunhe Hou

We propose a convex distributed optimization algorithm for synthesizing robust controllers for large-scale continuous time systems subject to exogenous disturbances. Given a large scale system, instead of solving the larger centralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Murat Cubuktepe , Ufuk Topcu , Takashi Tanaka

The distribution optimal power flow (D-OPF) models have gained attention in recent years to optimally operate acentrally-managed distribution grid. On account of nonconvex formulation that is difficult to solve, several relaxation methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Rahul Ranjan Jha , Anamika Dubey

The performance of computer networks relies on how bandwidth is shared among different flows. Fair resource allocation is a challenging problem particularly when the flows evolve over time. To address this issue, bandwidth sharing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Zaid Allybokus , Konstantin Avrachenkov , Jérémie Leguay , Lorenzo Maggi

Motivated by recent development in networking and parallel data-processing, we consider a distributed and localized finite-sum (or fixed-sum) allocation technique to solve resource-constrained convex optimization problems over multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Maria Vrakopoulou , Alireza Aghasi , Themistoklis Charalambous

In this paper, we consider distributed optimization problems where $n$ agents, each possessing a local cost function, collaboratively minimize the average of the local cost functions over a connected network. To solve the problem, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Kun Huang , Xiao Li , Andre Milzarek , Shi Pu , Junwen Qiu

This paper discusses distributed approaches for the solution of random convex programs (RCP). RCPs are convex optimization problems with a (usually large) number N of randomly extracted constraints; they arise in several applicative areas,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-27 Luca Carlone , Vaibhav Srivastava , Francesco Bullo , Giuseppe Calafiore

Alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) is a powerful method to solve decentralized convex optimization problems. In distributed settings, each node performs computation with its local data and the local results are exchanged…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Xueru Zhang , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Mingyan Liu